The world isn’t just within our reach nonetheless it has come in which to stay our palm. Improvements in technology saw the transition of pagers to mobiles and graduation of ordinary mobiles to smartphones was all over again a mile stone. In India, ‘Doordarshan’ and metro channels paved approach to their modern cousins – the satellite channels. All these ensured instant news, cutting across geographical barriers with good quality audio and videos to stream in realtime on the users. All these developments had a complicated guest in disguise, needless to say. And this was the ‘mass confusion’.

The news which has been once easily obtainable in papers, which are assimilated normally, became an excitement with multiple channels repeating a similar news – sometime with distorted versions. The excitement right away turned euphoria; and euphoria became chaos in microseconds. The phenomenon just isn’t restricted just to politics, which is the standard feed for the common man – what’s more, it broke into education, preparation for competitive examinations, plethora of online courses, lectures etc – the phenomena that were unheard of a few decades ago.

The new generation fight to name capital cities – say as an example, despite their access towards the best of gadgets, while high standards were met with the predecessors around a number of decades and earlier – with contact with pens, typewriters and hard copies of news papers. Blame it for the curriculum, the info overload has equally not shown mercy using the teaching faculty also. There is a corporate jungle in finding information because the pedagogy is busy sending notes and exercises over mobiles with their students. Do not underestimate their enthusiasm to push their students to Google and yahoo for his or her excellence. Caught within the mire of seeking information in the fastest pace, today some are glued to gadgets, which might be in fact going for a toll within the health and sight on the readers.

Posture and ergonomics can also be areas of concern within the chase for information and fulfillment of targets in offices. It happens to be inescapable to make use of computers along with social networks with easy use of cell phones. No number of caution to hazards of electromagnetic waves in addition to their environmental degradation could stop the gluttony of human try to find information. A peculiar situation is here to consolidate inside the society – what with the government making the mandatory addition of mobile amounts of citizenry of their day-to-day interaction with government.

It would be a usual question motivated to someone who would behave with arrogance and insolent might – as long as they had grown horns. Nobody knows, whose prophesy it was nevertheless it has become true now. A recent study has revealed startling information that caused by bad posture in viewing mobiles, horns are growing on young peoples’ skulls because of phone use. The study on bio mechanics from the subjects must be viewed in earnest to deter the use of cellphones not only from the younger lot but also the seniors, who enjoy mobiles and computers.

The solution would be to observe a universal ‘No mobile Day’ officially announced from the United Nations. This should certainly be a sequel on the ‘Earth Hour Movement’ which is observed yearly by switching off non-essential power supplies on an hour. This occasion reduces warming of the planet earth and also does a whole lot of good, when observed globally. March 28 was announced since the day for ‘Earth Hour Movement’ to the current year.

A similar occasion for time-off from mobiles will be the solution to detox ourselves from technology, which experts claim would keep us in bliss – removed from information overload. It would in reality be a real challenge, maybe the world can come to a standstill within the day of observance but on an encore of bliss, devoid of the clutches of excessive technology – I repeat, excessive technology – as I should not be termed a ‘naysayer’, the earth requires an experiment with this unthinkable dimension. Anything excessively is dangerous.

Venkat Ramamurthy carries a Diploma in Freelance Journalism from ‘The Writers Bureau College of Journalism’, Manchester, U.K. The college has awarded him a ‘Gold Seal Diploma’ for published writer.

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